Mexican American and Immigrant Poverty in the United States

• Main Author: Garcia, Ginny (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, 28
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Medical research.; Sociology.; Quality of life.; Emigration and immigration.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Migration.; Quality of Life Research.; Sociology, general.

This book provides a comprehensive portrait of the experience of poverty among Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants in the US. Given that these two groups experience some of the highest rates of poverty of any ethnicity and that it persists even while a majority work and reside in dual parent ho...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Table of contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Nomenclature
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Prior Studies
• Chapter 3: Settlement and Geographic Redistribution Patterns
• Chapter 4: Data and Methods
• Chapter 5: Individual Level Results: Mexican Americans
• Chapter 6: Individual Level Results: Mexican Immigrants
• Chapter 7: Multilevel Analysis and Results
• Chapter 8: Implications and Policy Suggestions
• Chapter 9: Conclusion
• References
• Index
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C.